<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!--*********************************************************************** * * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. * * Copyright 2008 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. * * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite * * $RCSfile: 03102700.xhp,v $ * $Revision: 1.6 $ * * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. * * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. * * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. * ************************************************************************--> <helpdocument version="1.0"> <meta> <topic id="textsbasicshared03102700xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">IsNumeric Function [Runtime]</title> <filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03102700.xhp</filename> </topic> <history> <created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> <lastedited date="2004-12-17T10:45:34">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> </history> </meta> <body> <section id="isnumeric"> <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3145136"><bookmark_value>IsNumeric function</bookmark_value> </bookmark> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145136" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03102700.xhp" name="IsNumeric Function [Runtime]">IsNumeric Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149177" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Tests if an expression is a number. If the expression is a <link href="text/sbasic/shared/00000002.xhp#dezimal" name="number">number</link>, the function returns True, otherwise the function returns False.</paragraph> </section> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149415" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150771" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">IsNumeric (Var)</paragraph> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148685" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148944" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Bool</paragraph> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148947" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154760" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> <emph>Var:</emph> Any expression that you want to test.</paragraph> <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149656" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="9">Example:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154367" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">Sub ExampleIsNumeric</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156423" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Dim vVar as variant</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154125" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">vVar = "ABC"</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147230" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="13">Print IsNumeric(vVar) REM Returns False</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156214" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">vVar = "123"</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154910" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="15">Print IsNumeric(vVar) REM Returns True</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147289" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">end sub</paragraph> </body> </helpdocument>